VC Marc Andreessen Just Gave the Most Brutal Advice to Entrepreneurs Ever. Get Ready to Cry.

The most common advice to entrepreneurs is to follow your passion. Makes sense, right? If you love what you are doing, then you’ll never work a day in your life and so on. On that advice, a well-known venture capitalist is saying that’s all bullsh*t.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, actor Jim Carrey gave a commencement speech at Maharishi University, giving his version of the “follow your passion/ make mistakes” speech. In response, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen went on Twitter to give a different message of what graduates should follow, and it wasn’t exactly the kind of inspiring pep-talk anyone would ever tell recent college graduates.

Marc Andreessen, partner of $4 billion venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and investor in companies such as Airbnb, Facebook, Foursquare, Groupon, Imgur, Bitcoin, and Skype, made the following tweets on Tuesday:

1/Thesis: "Do what you love" / "Follow your passion" is dangerous and destructive career advice.